Friday, February 20, 2009

Need Input!

I am currently finishing up two stories for the next issue of WHY magazine and would love to have some input. The first story is for our "telecommuters" story about how to get promoted when you telecommute -- how do you get onto your boss' radar, and stay there, when you work out of the office regularly. The second story is for our "you feature" about online writing ethics -- what's okay and not okay to do when you write for the web. Just today, I found a website that reprinted a post from this blog, and while I was flattered by the mention and the reference (w/o a link, though), I was upset that the owner of the website/blog was obviously oblivious to the fact that she had done something unethical. Should bloggers be held to the same standards are journalists? Is what this blogger did illegal as well as unethical? Would love to hear your thoughts!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Dina,

The whole post AND no link!!! Totally unethical.

I'm no copyright lawyer but I think what she's done is a massive no-no. In fact, it could hurt you what with duplicate content and Google.

Go check out PlagiarismToday.com